Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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T WAS on the first day of the
new year that the announcement
was made, almost simultaneous-
ly from three observatories, that
the "motion of the planet Nep-
I tune, the outermost of all the
planets that wheeled about the
sun, had become erratic. Ogilvy
had already called attention to
a suspected retardation in its ve-
locity in December. Such a piece
of news was scarcely calculated to Interest a
world the greater portion of whose Inhabitants
were unaware of the existence of the planet
Neptune, nor outside the astronomical profes-
sion did the subsequent discovery of a faint
remote speck of light in the region of the per-
turbed planets cause any great excitement.
Scientific people, however, found the intel-
ligence remarkable enough, even before it be-
came known that the new body was rapidly
grawing larger and brighter, that its motion
was quite different from the orderly progress
of the planets and that the deflection of Nep-
tune and its satellite was becoming now of
an unprecedented kind.
Few people without a training in science
can realize the huge isolation of the solar sys-
tem. The sun with its specks of planets, its
dust of planetoids and its impalpable comets
swims in a vacant immensity that almost de-
feats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of
Neptune there is space, vacant so far as hu-
man observation has penetrated, without
warmth or light or sound, blank emptiness, for
twenty million times a million miles, that is
the smallest estimate of the distance to be
traversed before the nearest of the stars is
attained. And, saving -a few comets more un-
substantial than the thinnest flame, no matter
had ever to human knowledge crossed this
gulf of space, until early in the twentieth cen-
tury this strange wanderer appeared.
A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy,
rushing without warning out of the black mys-
tery of the sky into the radiance of the sun.
By the second day it was clearly visible to any
decent instrument, as a speck with a barely
sensible diameter, in the constellation Leo
near Regulus. Fn a little while an opera
glass could attain it.
On the third day of the new year the news-
paper readers of two hemispheres were made
aware for the first time of the real importance
of this unusual apparition in the heavens. "A
Planetary Collision," one London paper beaded
the news, and proclaimed Duchaine's opinion
that this strange new planet would probably
collide with Neptune. The leader writers en-
larged upon the topic. So that in most of the
capitals of the world, on January 3. there was
an expectation, however vague, of some immi-
nent phenomenon in the sky; and as the night
followed the sunset round the globe thousands
of men turned their eyes skyward to see—
the old familiar stars Just as they had always
been.
I'ntll it was dawn in London and Pollux
setting and the stars overhead grown pale.
The winter's dawn it was, a sickly, filtering
accumulation of daylight, and the light of gas
and candles shone yellow In the windows to
show where people were astir. But the yawn-
ing policeman saw the thing, the busy crowds
In the market stopped agape, workmen going
to their work betimes, milkmen, the drivers
of news carts, dissipation going home Jaded
and pale, homeless wanderers, sentinels on
their beats, and in the country, laborers trudg-
ing afield, poachers slinking lidme, all over the
dusky, quickening country It could be seen—
and out at sea by seamen watching for the
day—a great white star, come suddenly ihto
the westward sky!
Brighter it was than any star in our skies;
brighter than the evening star at its brightest.
It still glowed out white and large, no mere
twinkling spot of light, but a small, round
clear, shining disk, an hour after the day had
come. And where science has not reached,
men stared and feared, telling one another of
he wars and pestilences that aro foreshad-
owed bv these fiery signs In the heavens
Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast
negroes. Frenchmen. Spaniards. Portuguese,
stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching
the setting of this strange new star
And in a hundred observatories there had
Jieen suppressed excitement, rising almost to
shouting pitch, as the two remote bodies had
•rushed together, and a hurrying to and fro
■to gather photographic apparatus and spectio-
scope and this appliance and thnt. to record
this novel, astonishing sight, the destruction
of a world. For It was a world, a sister planet
of our earth, far greater than our earth indeed,
that had so suddenly flashed lqto flaming
death. Neptune It was, had been struck, fairly
and squarely, by the strange planet from
outer space and the heat of the concussion had
incontinently turned two solid globes into one
vast mass of Incandescence. Hound the world
that day. two hours before the dawn, went the
pallid great white Btar, fading only as it sank
westward and the sun mounted above it. Ev-
erywhere men marveled at it. but of all those
who saw it none could have marveled more
than those sailors, habitual watchers of .the
stars, who far away at sea had heard nothing
of Its advent and saw it now rise like a pigmy
moon and climb zenltlnvard and hang over-
head and sink westward with the pasblw; of
the night.
And when next It rose over Europe every-
where were crowds of watchers on hilly slopes,
on house roofs, In open spaces, staring east
ward for the rising of the great new star. It
rose with a white glow in front of It. like the
glare of a white fire, and those who had seen
It come Into existence the night before cried
out at the sight of it. "It Is larger," they cried.
It Is brighter!" And Indeed the moon a quar-
ter full and sinking In the west was In Its
apparent size beyond comparison, but scarcely
In all Its breadth had It as much brightness
now as the little circle of the strange new star
"It Is brighter!" cried the people clustering
In the streets. But In the dim observatories
the watt hers held their breath and peered at
one another. "It Is nearer," they said. "Nearer."
And voice after voice repeated, "It Is near-
#r," and the clicking telegraph took that up,
(nil It trembled along telephone wires, and In
a thousand titles grimy compositors fingered
the type. "It Is nearer." Men writing In
»i"ues. struck will', a strang* realization, tiling
down their pens, men talking in a thousand
places suddenly came upon a grotesque possi-
bility in those words, "It is nearer." It hur-
ried along awakening streets, it was shouted
down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages,
men who had read these things from the throb-
bing tape stood in yellow-lit doorways shout-
ing the news to the passers-by. "It is nearer."
Pretty womt»n, flushed and glittering, heard
the news told Jestingly between the dances and
feigned an Intelligent interest they did not
feel. "Nearer! Indeed. How curious! How
clever people must be to find out things like
that!"
Lonely Uamps faring through the wintry
night murmured those words to comfort them-
selves—looking skyward. "It has need to be
nearer, for the night's as cold as charity.
Don't seem much warmth from It If it is
nearer, all the same."
"What Is a new star to me?" cried the
weeping woman kneeling beside her dead.
The schoolboy, rising early for his exami-
nation work, puzzled it out for himself with
the great white star shining broad and bright
through the frost-flowers of his window. "Cen-
trifugal, centripetal." he said, with his chin on
his fist. "Stop a planet in its flight, rob it of
Its centrifugal force, what then? Centripetal
has it, and down it falls into the sun! And
this—!" •
"Do we come in the way, I wonder "
The light of that day went the way of its
brethren and with the later watches of the
frosty darkness rose the strange star again.
And it was now so bright that the waxing
moon seemed but a pale, yellow ghost of itself,
hanging huge in the sunset. In a South Afri-
can city a great man had married and the
streets were alight to welcome his return with
his bride. "Even the skies have illuminated,"
said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro
lovers, daring the wild beasts anil evil spirits,
for love of one another, crouched together in
h cane brake where the fireflies hovered. "That
is our star," they whispered, and felt strangely
comforted by the sweet brillinncy of its light.
The master mathematician sat in his pri-
vate room and pushed the papers from him.
His calculations were already finished. In a
small white phial there still remained a little
of the drug that had kept him awake and
active for four long nights. Each day. serene,
explicit and patient as ever, he had given his
lecture to his students and then had come
back at once to his momentous calculation
His face was grave, a little drawn, and hectic
from his drugged activity. For some time he
seemed lost in thought. Then he went to the
window and the blind went up with a click.
Half way up the sky. over the clustering roofs,
chimneys and steeples of the city, hung the
star.
He looked at it as one might look into the
eye of a brave enemy . "You may kill me," he
said after a silence; "but I can hold you—and
all the universe, for that matter—in the grip
of this little brain. 1 would not change. Even
now."
He looked at the little phial. "There will
be 110 need of sleep again," he said. The next
day at noon, punctual to the minute, he en-
tered his lecture theater, put his hat on the
end of the table as his habit was, and carefully
selected a large piece of chalk. It was a Joke
among his students that he could not lecture
without that piece of chalk to fumble in his
fingers, and once he had been stricken to im-
potence by their hiding his supply. He came
and looked under his gray eyebrows at the
rising tiers of young, fresh faces, and spoke
with his accustomed studied commonness of
phrasing. "Circumstances have arisen—cir-
cumstances beyond my control," he said, and
paused, "which will debar me from completing
the course I had designed. It would seem,
gentlemen, if 1 may put the thing clearly and
briefly, that—man has lived in vain."
The students glanced at one another. Had
they heard aright? Mad? Raised eyebrows
mid grinning lips there were, but one or two
faces remained intent upon his calm, gray-
fringed face. "It will be interesting." he was
paying, "to 'devote this morning to an exposi-
tion, so far as I can make it clear to you, of
the calculations that have led me to this con-
clusion. Let us assume- "
He turned toward the blackboard, medita-
ting a diagram In the way that was usual to
him. "What was that about 'lived in vain ? '
whispered one student to another . "Listen,"
said the other, nodding toward the lecturer.
And presently they began to understand.
That night the star rose later, for Its proper
eastward motion had carried it some way
across Leo toward Virgo and its brightness
was so great that the sky became a luminous
blue as it rose and every star was hidden in
its turn, save only Jupiter near the zenith,
Capella, Aldebaran, Slrlus and the pointers
of the Bear. It was white and beautiful. I11
many parts of the world that night a pallid
halo encircled it about. It was perceptibly
larger; In the clear refractive sky of the trop-
ics It seemed as If It were nearly a quarter
the size of the moon. The frost wns still on
the ground in England, but the world was as
brightly lit as If It were midsummer moonlight
One could see to read quite ordinary print by
that cold, clear light, and In the cities the
lamps burnt yellow and wan.
And everywhere the world was awake that
night, and throughout Christendom a somber
murmur hung In the keen air over the country-
side like the belling of bees In the heather,
and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangor
in the cities. It was the tolling of the bells
in a million belfry towers and steeples, sum-
moning the people to Bleep 110 more, to sin no
more, but to gather in their churches and pray.
And overhead, growing larger and brighter, as
the earth rolled 011 Its way and the night
passed, rose the dazzling star.
And the streets and houses were alight In
all the cities, the shipyards glared, and what-
ever roads led to high country were lit and
crowded all night long. And la all the seas
about the civilized lands ships with throbbing
engines and ships with bellying sails, crowded
with men and living creatures, were standing
out to ocean and the, north. For already the
warning of the master mathematician had been
telegraphed all over the world and translated
Into a hundred tongues.
The new planet and Neptune, locked In a
fiery embrace, were whirling headlong, ever
*
faster and faster,
toward the sun.
Already every sec-
ond this blazing
mass flew a hun-
dred miles, and
every second its
terrific velocity
increased. As it
flew now, indeed,
it must pass a
hundred million
of miles wide of
the earth and
scarcely affect it.
But near its des-
tined path, as yet
only slightly per-
turbed, spun the
mighty planet Ju-
piter and his
moons sweeping
splendid round the
sun every moment now the attraction be-
tween the fiery star and the greatest of the
planets grew stronger. And the result of that
attraction? Inevitably Jupiter would be de-
flected from its orbit Into an elliptical path
and the burning star, swung by his attraction
wide of its sunward rush, would "describe a
curved path" and perhaps collide with, and
certainly pass slose to our earth. "Earth-
quakes, volcanic outbreaks, cyclones, sea
waves, floods, and a steady rise in tempera-
ture to I know not what limit"—so prophesied
the master mathematician.
And overhead, to carry out his words, lone-
ly and cold and livid, blazed the star of the
coming doom.
To many who stared at it that night until
their eyes ached It seemed that it was visibly
approaching. And that night, too, the weather
changed, and the frost that had gripped all
central Europe and France and England soft-
ened towards a thaw.
But you must not Imagine because I have
spoken of people praying through the night
and people going aboard ships and people flee-
ing toward mountainous country that the
whole world was already in a terror because
of the star. As a matter of fact, use and wont
still ruled the world and save for the talk of
idle moments and the splendor of the night
nine human beings out of ten were still busy
at their common occupations. I11 all the cities
the shops, save one here and there, opened and
closed at their proper hours, the doctor and
the undertaker plied their trades and workers
gathered in the factories, soldiers drilled, schol-
ars studied, lovers sought one another, thieves
lurked and fled, politicians planned their
schemes. The presses of the newspapers
roared through the niglit3 and many a priest
of this church and that would not open his
holy building to further what he considered a
foolish panic.
The newspapers insisted on the lesson of
the year 1000—for then, too, people had antici-
pated the end. The star was no star—mere
gas—a comet; and were it a star it could not
possibly strike the earth. There was no prece-
dent for such a thing. Common sense was
sturdy everywhere, scornful, Jesting, a little
inclined to persecute the obdurate fearful.
That night at 7:15 by Greenwich time the star
would be at its nearest to Jupiter. Then the
world would see the turn things would take.
The master mthematician's grim warnings
were treated by many as so much mere elabo-
rate self-advertisement. Common sense at last,
a little heated by argument, signified its unal-
terable convictions by going to bed. So, too,
barbarism and savagery, already tired of the
novelty, went about their nightly business and
save for a howling dog here and there the
beaest world left the star unheeded.
And jet, when at last the watchers in the
European states saw the star rise, an hour
later, it is true, but no larger than it had been
the night before, there were still plenty awake
to laugh at the master mathematician—to take
the danger as if it had passed.
But hereafter the laughter ceased. The
star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness
hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a
little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter
and brighter, until it had turned night into
day. Had it come straight to the earth in-
stead of in a curved path, had It lost 110 veloc-
ity to Jupiter, it must have leapt the interve-
ning gulf in a day; but as it was it took five
days altogether to come by our planet. The
next night it had become a third the size of
the moon before It set to English eyes, and tile
thaw was assured.
It rose over America near the size of the
moon, but blinding white to look at, and hot;
and a breath of hot wind blew now with its
rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia
and Brazil and down the St. Lawrence valley
it shone intermittently through a driving reek
of thunder clouds, flickering violet lightning,
and hail unprecedented. In Manitoba were a
thaw and devastating floods. And upon all the
mountains of the earth the snow and ice began
to melt that night and all the rivers coming
out of high country flowed thick and turbid,
and soon I11 the upper reaches—with swirl-
ing trees and the bodies of beasts and men.
They rose steadily, steadily in the ghostly
brilliance, and tame trickling over their banks
at last, behind the flying population of their
valleys.
And along the coast of Argentina and up
the South Atlantic the tides were higher than
they had ever beeu In the memory of man and
the storms drove the waters in many cases
scores of miles inland, drowning whole cities.
And so great grew the heat during the night
that the rising of.the sun was like the comlnf
of a shadow The earthquakes began and
grew until all down America, from the Arctic
circle to Cape Horn hillsides were sliding, fis-
sures were opening and houses and walls
crumbling to destruction. The whole side of
Cotopaxl slipped out In one vast convulsion
and a tumult of lava poured out so high and
broad and swift and liquid that in one day It
reached the sea.
So the star, with the wan moon In Its wake,
marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunder
storms like the hem of a robe, and the growing
tidal wave that tollod behind It, frothing and
eager, poured over Island and Island and swept
them clear of men. Until that wave came at
last In a blinding light and with the breath of
a furnace, swift and terrible It came—a wall
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the long coasts of Asia, and swept Inland across
the plains of China. For a space the star, hot-
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China was lit glowing white, but over Japan
and .lava and all the Islands of eastern Asia the
great star was a ball of dull red lire because of
the steam and smoke and ashes the volcanoes
were spouting forth to salute its coining. Above
were the lava, hot gases and ash. and below
the seething floods and the whole earth swayed
and rumbled with the earthquake shocks.
Larger grew the star, and larger, hotter and und always htiplul
brighter with a terrible swiftness now. The ————————
tropical ocean had lost its phosphorescence and
the whirling steam rose In ghostly wreaths from
the black waves that plunged incessantly,
speckled with storm tossed ships
And then came a wonder. It seemed to
those who in Europe watched for the rising
of the star that the world must have ceased
its rotation. In a thousand open spaces of down
and upland the people who had fled thither from
the floods and the falling houses and sliding
slopes of hill watched for that rising in vain.
Hour followed hour through a terrible suspense
and the star rose not. Once again men set their
eyes upon the old constellations they had count-
ed lost to them forever. In England it was hot
and clear overhead, though the ground quivered
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FITTED TO BE STARS.
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Over Asia it was the star had begun to fall
behind the movement of the sky and then sud- f tunners.
denly, as It hung over India, its light had been Do farmers eat the proper sort of food ?
veiled. All the plain of India from the mouth farmer of today buys a much!
of the Indus to the mouths of the Ganges was Iargpr I>ropor tion ol' the food that goes
a shallow waste of shining water that night, out oJl (|je (hail he ditl ten years ago.
of which rose temples and palaces, mounds and ]t,B a g(J0(, (bing that this is so becausa
hills, black with people. Every minaret was |)(, hng Rrcat varj0|y to select from,
a clustering mass of people, who fell one by
one into the turbid waters as heat and terror
overcame them. The whole land Beemed
a wailing anil suddenly there swept a shadow
across that furnace of despair and a breath of
cold wind and a gathering of clouds out of the
cooling air. Men looking up. near blinded, at
the star, saw that a black disk was creeping
across the light. It was the moon coming be-
tween the star and the earth. And even as
men cried to Cod at tills respite, out of the
east with a strange, inexplicable swiftness
sprang the sun. And then star, sun and moon
rushed together across the heavens.
So it was that presently, to the European
watchers, star and sun rose close upon each
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eaten is due very largely to the recent
demonstrations by scientific men that
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with greatest physical endurance and
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slower, and at last came to rest, star and sun
merged into one glare of flame at the zenith
of the sky. The moon 110 longer eclipsed the
star, but was lost to sight In the brilliance of
the sky. And though (hose who were still alive
regarded it for the most part with that dull stu-
pidity that hunger, fatigue, heat and despair
engender, there were still men who could per
eeive the meaning of these signs
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— Star and There was 110 such telescoping as
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about one another and the star had passed, j wooden cars, and the injuiies were
Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, In merely such as resulted fioui the pas-
the last stage of its headlong Journey downward sengers being thrown down by the
into the sun.
And then the clouds gathered, blotting out
the vision of the sky; the thunder and lightning
wove a garment urouud the world; all over the
earth was such a downpour of rain as men had
never seen before; and where the volcanoes
flared red against the cloud canopy there de-
scended torrents of mud. Everywhere the wa-
ers were pouring off the land, leaving mud
shock of the collision.
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Billed ruins and the earth littered like a storm Is peaches and cream.
worn beach with all that hail floated and the
dead bodies of the men and brutes, Its children.
But the star had passed and men, hunger
driven and gathering courage only slowly, might
creep back to ihelr ruined cities, buried gran-
aries and sodden fields Such few ships as had
escaped the storms of that time came stunned
and shattered and sounding their way cau-
tiously through the new marks and shoals of
once familiar ports. And 11s the storms subsi-
ded men perceived that everywhere the days
were hotter than of yore and the sun larger and
the moon, shrunk to a third of Its former size,
took fourscore days between Its new and new
The Martian astronomers for there are as-
tronomers 011 Mars, although they are different
beings from men— were naturally profoundly In
terested by these things. They saw them from
their own standpoint, of course. "Considering
the mass and temperature af the missile that
was flung through our solar system Into the
sun," one wrote, "It is astonishing what a little
damage the earth, which It missed so narrowly,
has sustained. All the familiar continental
markings and the masses of the seas remain
Intact and Indeed the only difference seems to
be a shrinkage of the white discoloration (sup-
posed to be frozen water) round either pole." j
Which only shows how small the vastest of hu- I
man catastrophes may seem at a distance of a |
few million miles.
• Copyright, 1910, by W. CI Chapman.)
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Wood, A. B. Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1910, newspaper, May 20, 1910; Mulhall, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc305218/m1/3/?q=hoy: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.